Nyingchi
English
Etymology
From Tibetan ཉིང་ཁྲི (nying khri).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈn(j)ɪŋ.t͡ʃi/, /-t͡ʃə/
Proper noun
Nyingchi
- A prefecture-level city in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
- 1982, Zhang Mingtao, The Roof of the World, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, LCCN 81-1269, OCLC 475897404, page 107:
- Today, developments in modern technology can be observed in the industrial center of Nyingchi on the lower reaches of the Nyang River.
- 2002, Michael McRae, In Search of Shangri-La, Broadway Books, →ISBN, OCLC 248803186, page 198:
- To accommodate the expected visitors, a resort of “holiday villas” for a thousand guests was being planned for Nyingchi, near the upper end of the gorge, as well as a luxury hotel that will cater to the wealthy and powerful. Anticipating the tourist boom, business owners in Nyingchi prefecture formed a club dedicated to investigating reports that a “legendary wild man,’ presumably a yeti, inhabits the gorge.
- 2011 August 26, Zhang, Dongya, “Tibet season”, in Beijing Today, OCLC 958634538, page 20:
- Nyingchi, east of Lhasa, is an ideal place to start the journey because of its lower elevation and pleasant scenery.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Nyingchi.
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Translations
prefecture-level city in Tibet, China
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